Pope Pius X (Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto) died August 20, 1914. Reign August 5, 1903 until death 1914. Heart attack. Age: 79.

True Boardman died September 28, 1918. Nervous breakdown. Age: 38. Played Lord Greystoke in silent Tarzan films. Last film: Terror of the Range (1919). Granddaughter is Lisa Gerritsen.

Virginia Rappe died Sept. 10, 1921 after being raped by Fatty Arbuckle. "External Pressure" during sexual dalliance. Ruptured bladder by violence. Peritonitis. Age: 25

William Desmond Taylor died February 1, 1922. Murdered.

President Warren G. Harding passed away on August 2, 1923 while in the middle of a conversation with his wife. A stroke or a heart attack. Rupture of brain artery, stroke of apoplexy. Age: 57.

Barbara La Marr died in 1926. Age: 26. Overdose. Tuberculosis and nephritis.

Harry Houdini (Erich Weiss), magician, past away October 31, 1926. Peritonitis, ruptured appendix. Age: 52. Was hit the the stomach several times by a disgruntled man. Tony Curtis in lead role, HOUDINI (1953). Paul Michael Glaser in the lead in THE GREAT HOUDINI (1976-tv), with Sally Struthers, Vivian Vance.

Art Acord died Jan. 4, 1931. Suicide by cyanide. Appeared in The Invaders (1912).

Paul Bern died September 5, 1932. Found shot to death in his bathroom. Unsolved. Ruled a suicide. Married Jean Harlow 2 months ago. Was a writer, supervisor, producer and director.

Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle died June 28, 1933. Heart attack. Age: 46. 266-pounds, his career ended after he raped Virinia Rappe and she died 5 days later.

Karl Dane died April 14, 1934. Suicide.

John Gilbert died from heart failure Jan. 9, 1936. So in love with Greta Garbo. She left him at the alter. Did one more film together and that was it. She left. He died poor. Age: 38

James Murray died July 11, 1936. Suicide. Found in Hudson River.

Ross Alexander died Jan. 2, 1937. Sucide.

Jean Harlow died June 7, 1937. Uremic poisoning. Once collapsed on the set in Clark Gable's arms. After death, scenes were finished with a stand-in (notice hat not showing the face).

Huey White died June 22, 1938 in a road accident. Age: 40. Appeared in The Thin Man (1934) as "Face Tefler". Last film, Accident Will Happen (1938).

Alice Brady died Oct. 28, 1939 at the age of 46. Cancer.

Donald Haines in 1941 was Missing in Action or died. Unsolved.

Buck Jones (Charles Gebhart) died November 30, 1942 from the Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston.

W.S. Van Dyke died February 5, 1943. Age: 53. Suicide. Director of first four "The Thin Man" films.